Lawsuits Fly Over Google Founders' Party Plane

Mr. Soxley writes to tell us that the Boeing 767 recently purchased by Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page is at the heart of what promises to be quite a legal battle. From the article: "Now the Delaware holding company that technically owns the 767, Blue City Holdings LLC, is embroiled in multiple lawsuits with an aviation designer hired to plan and oversee the massive plane's interior renovation. [...] But last October, Blue City terminated Mr. Jennings's contract, saying he wasn't doing his job properly. Mr. Jennings then filed a nearly $200,000 lien against the aircraft with the Federal Aviation Administration for payment he hadn't received. He later filed a complaint related to the matter against Blue City and Gore Design Completions Ltd., the San Antonio executive-jet outfitting firm that worked on the plane, in District Court in Bexar County, Texas."

Comments

Must be a slow news day

[the_humeister]

If the plane wasn't even remotely related to Google, the story wouldn't even be here. Am I missing something?

Re:Must be a slow news day

[ThisIsForReal]

Didn't you see the slashdot story graphic? This is about your rights online and it affects us all dearly.

I can only hope that in this particular case, Google sends its lobbyists to Congress to change laws affecting how the FAA administers leans against aircraft so that all of us slashdotters with our own 767-200's don't have to worry about the judicial system screwing us over once again. This is about all of our ONLINE RIGHTS!

Re:Must be a slow news day

[pHatidic]

Think of it as tech celebrity gossip. Tomorrow we'll discuss whether or not RMS's boobs are real.

Re:Must be a slow news day

[Anonymous Coward]

This story reminds me of a poster I saw once that read:

Great people talk about ideas
Average people talk about things
Small people talk about other people

YRO?

[Anonymous Coward]

How the hell is this YRO?

Re:YRO?

[Jerf]

How the hell is this YRO?

I think it's time that YRO either got re-named or re-thought.

Clearly we need a "Legal" or "Law" section. But if YRO was re-focused back to its original purpose, that might still be useful too.

(To forstall the inevitable "Why?" and "Who cares?", the answer is "So you can correctly filter the stories.", which is the only reason to have the sections at all. Someone can be interested in law stories like this and not actual YRO stories, or vice versa. And the purpose of these sections is so we can tell people who bitch about a particular set of stories to just filter them out, thus keeping the comment area that much cleaner.)

This will serve as a stark warning...

[Digitus1337]

...for the rest of us concerning our modified 767s. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

1200 Emails = Involved?

[DesireCampbell]

Mr. Jennings says allegations that he wasn't sufficiently involved in the project or accessible to the plane's owners are false, and has over 1,200 emails related to the project to disprove them.

I've got 1200 emails about Viagra - I'm not involved in cock-pills.

Re:Do no evil - except when outfitting your 767

[ScrewMaster]

Besides, if you're phenomenally wealthy I don't know of any law that says you shouldn't enjoy it. I mean ... what would be the other reasons for acquiring lots of money? Granted, a 767 does seem a bit grandiose, but no worse than the hundreds of millions that Bill Gates' has spent on his various homes.

Frankly, I think a hammock on a jetliner sounds like fun.

"Okay Bob, a nice gentle bank to the right ... okay ... now swing back to the left ... ahh, now you got it. Keep doing that for a while."

It wouldn't surprise me if Brin and Page get a little miffed at this guy for discussing their private jet in public, though.